Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changes were passed, Dean Ford commented that the Faculty was probably glutted on academic liberalization for the year. But early in the spring the CEP approved what looked to be the most radical change of all--opening Independent Study (previously a haven for honors Juniors and Seniors) to all upperclassmen in all rank list groups. Actually the CEP was doing little more than validating what it found to be the evolutionary development of Independent Study. It had originally been intended as course reduction to accommodate eccentric schemes of the college's best students, but now about 300 students per term...
Harvard and sons strove to atone for Yankee niggardliness. Seniors welcomed freshmen to the Houses, while the Navy took over the Yard; the Freshman Union became a communications school. Upperclassmen, those above the draft-eligible age of 20, heard their country call, and ROTC and the Enlisted Reserve Corps accepted many of them...
...Independent study. Sophomores and non-honors upperclassmen will be allowed to take independent studies--a freedom formerly restricted to honors juniors and seniors. Students will also no longer need the signatures of their own department chairmen or head tutors for independent studies, only those of the person sponsoring their work and, if it is a junior faculty member, that of his department's head tutor. Freshmen will still have to wait a year for this...
...freshmen streaked out the gate by Holworthy before a lone cop could lock it up. They poured across the Cambridge Common to Radcliffe, then came back through the Common toward the Houses. They ran around Quincy's courtyard for a while, then took off down Mass Ave. with 30 upperclassmen added to their ranks...
...West Point, Abrams found the lowly estate of a plebe demeaning, and retaliated with his own guerrilla war against upperclassmen, aiming potshots with his BB gun judiciously due south of retreating backs and once smearing an upperclassman's radiator with Limburger cheese. His pranks found more acceptable outlets in stage-managing the academy's 100th Night Show, and his aggressiveness was more usefully employed on the football field. He graduated a mediocre 185th in his class of 276, but one course in which he excelled was horsemanship. That led him into the cavalry and, with the army...